Summary:
By the second year of the war, Confederate manpower shortages became acute. The following Confederate orders, issued in June, 1862, by R. L. Dabney, Jackson's adjutant, instruct Col. Johnson to encamp near Staunton to recruit men for the army and round up stragglers.

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HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT,

June 13, 1862.

III. Col. Johnson, of the First Maryland Regiment, is directed to encamp, with his command, in the vicinity of Staunton, Va., for the purpose of recruiting; and is also ordered to collect all stragglers from the Army of the Valley, and return them to these headquarters under guard. By order of Maj.-Gen. Jackson:

R. L. DABNEY,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 12, Serial No. 15, Pages 818, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.